I'm really sad BlackBerry is no longer making phones. I really wanted a key2, but I think I'm just gonna have to trade the physical keyboard for something I can degoogle, because you can't root BBs.
Everything from Google Services Framework to the Play Store is disabled. There's not much point striving to remove it - those are all system apps, making them easy enough to disable, and uninstalling them won't net me aby additional useable space.
Notifications still work well, battery life lasts at least a day and a half, and the phone is fast and responsive despite the older SoC and "scant" 2 GB of RAM.
Also, having a physical keyboard with a Ctrl key makes SSHing around so much more handy. The Key2 was my first PKB and I'm here to stay as long as there's devices :)